Midnight Beach Picnic Weekend

This weekend started off rather boring. On Saturday, I woke up, putted around the house before I took a shower. I putted around some more by playing with my camera and taking self-portraits. The FLCL poster in the background kinda ruined the shots. Note to self, I need to get rid of the FLCL poster on my wall before it falls and paper cuts all over my face in the middle of the night.

After all that fun, I hopped into my car to go to work. On the weekend. It was actually a good thing that I went because there were some problems that cropped up that I would have had to work on today, so I got a head start on that.

At 8:30 PM, I left work to go down to Cabrillo Beach to catch some fish. Except there really weren’t any fish to catch. There were a lot of people on the beach pointing their flashlights left and right into the water, scaring the grunion away. :\ The grunion run turned into a midnight beach picnic instead. I kinda was looking forward to eating a grunion, but alas, nope. Maybe during the next run I’ll be able to take some home to eat.

Sunday, I met up with Shiz and Dee for the natsu matsuri at Mitsuwa in Torrance. They had takoyaki 6 pieces for $4! Cheap! The octopus pieces were generous, too. What a good deal! Of course, the yakisoba was kinda meatless… Jyun showed up and finished off the takoyaki Shiz was saving for him. It was the standard Mitsuwa summer festival of the years past. I wanted to wear a yukata, but I was defeated by the thought of having to tie an obi (which I couldn’t remember and thus would have to look up on the interwebs) and having to slip on a pair of zouri on my feet. Wearing zouri hurts and my foot was hurting from the night before standing on the beach barefooted. I’m so babied with my cushiony flip-flops.

Torrance Mitsuwa Natsu Matsuri
People lining up for shaved ice… It wasn’t even that hot that day…

Managed to escape Mitsuwa without buying anything. Go me!

When I got home, I planted my tea bush I bought at the obon festival last week.

Tea Bush